Instruction through Whatsapp: MBBS student helps women deliver a baby on moving train

A 24-year-old final year MBBS student, Vipin Khadse, helped a woman in labour on the Ahmedabad-Puri Express to deliver her baby safely, with help from his seniors on WhatsApp.

Vipin aspires to be a surgeon and is currently training at the Government Medical College & Hospital in Nagpur. He decided to help Chitralekha, who reportedly went into labour on the train on Friday, when the TT couldn’t find any other doctor on board.

The 24-year-old young mother was travelling with her husband and relatives to Raipur in Chhattisgarh.

The train was about 30 kms from Nagpur when the woman’s relatives pulled the chain to halt the train near Wardha junction.

The ticket collector and guard were looking for a doctor on the train. Initially, I kept quiet presuming there could be some experienced doctor. But, when they came for a second round of inquiry, I offered to help,” Vipin told.